"Under normal conditions I run from questionnaires. The fact that I not only accepted to answer this one, but also bring it under your attention here, is even more a sign of my appreciation of Wikipedia than the actual answers I give to the questions." - Francis Schonken

I only mention some "Meta-Wiki" articles here, going from the supposition that Cormac already browsed the "wikipedia:" namespace in English Wikipedia. If not: en:Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines might be a good start. So, on meta I think about:

I haven't a clue how many wikipedians received this - or a similar - message, and did yes or no respond to it. The interesting bit is where Cormac says Reply and return as you like - well that didn't take long for me: I like Wikipedia a lot, and as you'll see, the medium can be used for this kind of reply & return.

my name is Cormac Lawler, from Ireland, and I'm doing some research on Wikipedia for my dissertation for an M.Ed.

I realise this is out of the blue - I got your address through the website - but I am interested in hearing your views on, experience of and engagement with Wikipedia. If possible I would like to send you a short questionnaire by email, which you can fill out and send back to me. But before we start, I can assure you that nothing you say will be directly quoted to you by name/Username/inference etc., unless you specifically give me permission to do so.

You can get back to me at cormaggio(at)yahoo.co.uk if this sounds allright with you.

Published in downloadable PDF format and as a list of questions which can be copy-pasted to your user page and/or to the discussion page of this page. Please add link to the last section below, indicating where Cormac can find a version of the form filled out by you. You can also send by mail - see Cormac's User page

NOTE: If you have accessed the questionnaire through this page, or through a mailing list, can you please specify this on the questionnaire itself? Also, since I neglected to include questions about background (an oversight) it would be good, though not necessary, to include country of residence, gender, and maybe age. Cormaggio